Shoe rack



Oct. 6, 1925-. 1,556,425

E. COOMBES ETv AL sHo RACK Filed Aug. 25. 1924 VWF-Tij -Peienied oei. 6,1925.

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WAEEEN E cocinas, or sos'roN,

HANGHEs'rEE, rennen, or

massacHUsE'r'rs, AND cHEs'rEn D. TURNER, or VNEW HAMPSHIRE AssieNons 'ro UNITED sHoE MACHINERY cone rA'rEBsoN, NEW` JERSEY, A coEroEA'rroN or NEW JERSEY.

Appiiemen nien august 25,1924. serial No. 73:,970.

To all whom it ma/y concern:

Be it known and CHESTER United States, the county of of Massachusetts,

county of Hillsborou Hampshire, respective have invented certain Improvements in hoe Racks, of which the following descri tion in connection with the accompanying rawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the. drawings indicating like parts in the several Iigures.

This invention relates to shoe racks such as are used to carry shoes from one part of a factory to another for the perfomance of various shoemaking operations, and to hold shoes between operations. -The invention is illustrated as embodied in what is known as a vpiiirack of the typel having members, termed pins, for supporting and maintaining bottom side u in spaced relation shoes the tops o f which are re- 5 ceivedl in slots betwen the pins.

In one form of pin rack commonly used heretofore, each shoe is supported'by two round pins which enga e that shoe only. In another form which as been extensively used, substantially half as many pins afford the saine shoe-holding capacity, each pin vcomprising a member, frequently termed a paddle, with one ment with another shoe.

Whatever the form ofrack, it is yim tant that it take u -as little factory oor lspaceas is practica lewith due re ard to sup ortin the shoes without liability 4of 0 'their ru'b ing together either, `when Athey 'are taken from or replaced on the racks, or

D. TURNER, citizens of the and residing at Boston, in Suffolk and Coimonwealth and .Manchester, in the h and State of New as they are-jostledin' moving the'racks from place to place'. Hundreds vof 4shoe racks, and in the larger 4shoe factoriesthousands output, 'Necessarily, therefore, 4'these racks take upa large amount of floors'pace. As f such racks have been constructed heretofloorsvr as to constitute a serious problem. Confsef quently, any appreciable economynof 'floor 'effected by constructing more'icompactly represents a large*I fore, Atheyhave so congested' factory space which can "saving tothe shoe manufacturer, vproviding that we, WARREN E. CooMEs' having.A one side Yin engagement shoe and the other side in engage` pins constructed-and arranged of racks, are required to'handle the Ifactory acwmpwying drawings in whiehfe;

itv can be accomplished Without liability of damaging shoes.

The problem space is aggravated by ,manuifactiire of shoes, particularly shoes of the better to rack shoes in pairsto prevent separation of the shoes bf a pair, and to facilitate manufacturing uniformity for each air. In pin of thus economizing floorV the fact that Ain the ades, it vis common practice racks as. heretofore constructe the center lines of the slots between .adjacent shoesupporting pins have been uniformi spaced.v Consequently, when shoes are place in such a rack in pairs that is', with corresponding edges of the slioes of a pair adjacent, if suflicient clearance is allowed between the ins to insure that adjacent outside shoe o repart surfaces will not rub together, there will be unnecessary space between adjacent inside forepart' surfaces due to characteristic differences in shape vbetween the inside and outside contours of shoes.

In view of the'fo'reg'oing, the present in- Y vention provides animproved shoe rack in which wider pins each 'of suilicient width to* position shoes with their outer edges closel adjacent but out ofcontact alternate with l narrower pins each of sufficient width, to u position shoes' with their inner edges closely adjacent but out of contact.

Preferably,'and'a's herein illustrated, the

`rack'is provided with a `series of pins each engaging two shoes and comprising rela-` tively wide pins1 alternating with narrower to'position shoes in pairs with correspondin edges of successive shoes closelAH adjacent ut out of contact. Thusftlie lustrated rack il al 1 compact as possible consistently with avoidi abil-ity .Ofiini'urya adieeent shoes b hing togetherk y 'lhese and other features of the invention,

comprising certain combinations Tand 'a'r-l v range ments of will vbe ..nderstood ffrom the following description'o'f a pre ferred embodiment thereofselected for. purposes -of `illustration (and shownr in.y the Fi 1 is afront elevatioiio Fig. 4 is a. diagrammatic plan View f the pin bar and shoes supported thereby.

The illustrated rack comprises a bottomframe 10, end lframes l2, 14, casters 16, braces -riveted at their ends tof the corresponding bars 22. For. supporting shoes, each of the pin bars 24 carries a series of fiat paddle pins 30, 32. The paddles are substantially Wider than the paddles 32 land the two types are arranged in alternation along the pin bar, .as shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3. The

edges 34 of these paddles are slotted parallel to their length so that these lon 'tudinal slots in each adjacent pair of pins ace each other. In these slots is ,mounted a short metal bar 40 which bridges over from each in to the next and which is bolted to the ars 26 ,and 28 at its ends as shown at 42 in Fig. 2. As shown in Fig. 3, the bottoms of.

the ins or paddles are-recessed to receive the ars 26 and 28 upon which they lie and to whichthey are fastened by the bars 40 in the slots in their sides. The structure thus described securely astens the pins to the 4 longitudinally extending bars 26, 28 and also permits easy removal zand replacement of a broken pin. Advantageously, a toe rest bar 44 is provided extendm lengthwise of the dies 3o, 32 en rack near the inner en s of the slots 46 formed by each two adjacent pins. j

In the illustrated use of the rack, the shoes are placed bottom side up, each of the padal 'ng and plartly supporting two shoes, an t e tops of the shoes being received in the slots 46, while the foreparts of the shoe uppers engage and rest upon the toe rest bar 44. When the shoes are mounted you lasts, as indicated by dotted line inl 1g. 2, the cones of the lasts are received in the slots 46. It will be observed that while the rear portions of the `sides of the paddles I are straight and parallel, as indicated at 34,

the forward portions of the 'si des of the paddles are concave, as indicated at 36. They concave shape of the sides of the paddles,

supplemented by sloping the b 22 downwardly from the front to the ack of the rack, serves to prevent the shoes from bein jostledout of sup rting -enga ment wi the paddles as the $30k is movede from place j j to ace in the factory.-

e advantages of the 'present invention are well illustrated by Fi'g. 4, which shows a. plan view of ve pins with a diagrammatic showing 'of shoes supported in the slots be contact, and the'wider paddle pins bei tween the pins. It will be observed that in the illustra-ted construction each of the paddle ins has edges shaped to engage the tops of t e shoes, the narrower pad ms bein of suiiicient width to position s oes wit their inner edges closely adjacent but' out o;

o suicient width to' position shoes with t `eir outer edges adjacent but out of contact, thereby provid' for supporting shoes in pairs with theuoes of each: palr side by side. Thus the illustrated alternation of the wide pins 30 and narrow pins 32 and the consequent variations in the separation of the center lines of the slots 46 are effective to position the outer edges ofthe shoes of each pair' closely adjacent but out of contact and toposition the inner edges of the shoes of each pair closely adjacent to but out of contact with the inner edges of the adjacent shoes.

-In the arrangement illustrated in Fig. 4, the second and third of the flour shoes therein shown constitutepa pair-of shoes. It is obvious, however, that, instead of having the end paddles ofl each series of paddles each equivalent to one-half of a narrow' paddle, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, each end pad le of the series ma be the equivalent of one-half of a wide pa dle. In that case, the shoes of each pair will be arranged with their inner edges adjacent and with their outer edges adjacent to the outer edges of shoes of adjacent pairs. In either case the advantages of the invention are equally obtained in essentially theF same s way. Thus adequate room is rovided for the shoes without liability of t eir rubbing together, and at the same time no room is wasted, as has been the ycase in heretofore existlng `racks 1n which the shoe-receiving slots were uniformly spaced along the pin The front ends of the slots 38 may advantageously be filled by wooden plu 48, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the bars 40seing substantially shorter than the slots inthe I wooden A contact j etween parts of the rack.

uns in order to avoid danger of the shoesrand any metal.- l

` While the invention Vis disclosed .in cnnection with a addle' rack, it isnot to be understood as imited thereto, as its advantages can be equally well secured in other typess'of rack, in particular' the round pin type discussed above.

Havingfdescribed our invention, what we claim -as new and desire to secure Patent of the United States is:

1-. In a shoe rack, a series of pins for sup porting shoes and maintaining them Y' 1n spaced relationv comprising wider pins each of sucient widthv to their outer edges close y adjacent but -out of contact alternating with narrowerpinsv by Letters I `uns` osition shoes with v each of sulicient width to position shoes with their inner edges closely adjacent but out of contact.

2. In a shoe rack, a series of pins for supporting shoes and maintaining ,them in spaced relation comprising wider pins each of suiiicient width and suitably arranged to engage two shoes and position said shoes with their outer edges closely adjacent but out of contact, alternating with narrower pins each of suflicient width and suitably arranged to engage two shoes and position said shoes with their inner edges closely adjacent but out of contact.

3. A shoe rack. comprising a frame, and a series of pins carried by the frame and projecting therefrom for supporting and maintainin in spaced relation shoes the tops of which are received in slots between the pins, the ser1es of pins comprising relatively wide pins alternating with narrower pins constructed and arranged to position shoes in pairs with corresponding edges of successive shoes closely adjacent but out of contact.

4. In fa 'shoe rack, a frame, and a. series of flat paddle pins of different widths projecting from the frame, each of said paddle pins havin edges shaped to engage the tops of shoes w ereby adjacent edges of adacent paddle pins form a slot to receive an support an inverted shoe, the narrower paddle pins being of suicient width to position 'and having their outer edges closely a jacentto the ends of the frame, thereby providing a rack of minimum dimensions adapted for supportingshoes in airs, with the shoes of each pair side by si e.v

In testimony whereof I, the said WARREN E. COOMBES, have signed my name to this specification.

l WARREN E; COOMBES.

In testimony whereof I, the said CHESTER D. TUnNEmhave signed my name to this specification.

CHESTER D. TURNER. 

